Re: [WinMac] Japanese text on PC (off topic?)
Ken O'Neill(koneill[at]U.Arizona.EDU)
At 08:39 PM 7/29/99 -0500, you wrote: >Does anyone out there know of a program that can convert Japanese text files >into editable text within Illustrator, Freehand or XPress on a PC? > >We are currently using Apple's Japanese Language Kit on our Macs and >formatting via Illustrator, then importing into XPress documents. We will >soon be moving over to PC based systems running with NT (ahhhhh, corporate >america...) and I've yet to come across any programs that will work >similarly to the JLK on the PC. Usually the files are provided by our >translators as MS Word files. > I've had much success using TwinBridge's software on Window's platforms. Twinbridge's implementation of CJK standards permits doing word processing under Windows, complete with handsome font packages, thereby side stepping the S-JIS problem for nihongo. Once you've got your file looking final, simply save it as a graphics file using a shareware package such as Snapshot. The other option, which I used to do, consists of setting up a dual boot system with System Commander, thereby running both English and Japanese versions of Windows on the same platform, doing the edits and typeset under the Japanese system, then exporting final files as graphics objects to the English system; while cumbersome, it got me through the day until TwinBridge came along.
Ken O'Neill
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